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 able to love, to share, to go 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.

暴政的根基是恐惧。

人类的选择在于自由和幸福之间，而对于大多数人来说，幸福更好。

But how can you do push-ups when your nose gets in the way?