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.

The key to solving complex problems is often to find the right abstraction that simplifies the problem without losing its essential features.

The needs of farmers are the direction of our scientific research.