The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule， not to bewail， not to scorn human actions， but to understand them.

我们最高的努力必须是培养自由的人类，他们能够自己赋予生活目的和方向。