Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.

Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.

A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Take away from love the fullness of self surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love.

With my love I will touch you.With my love I will heal you.With my love I will surround you.With my love I will melt you.

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

People usually don't allow you to cut off their tongue.

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade

I'm keenly aware of how important it is to set a good example. You may not think that your kids are paying attention to you, especially with something like money, but they probably are.

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.