He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape originally defined as abduction became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time to be not only use of but possession of or ownership.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give the more they possess.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which I cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

The desire for possession is insatiable to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love therefore is to sterilize the person one loves.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed for love is sufficient unto love.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Judgments value judgments concerning life for or against can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

I have written about the dispossessed immigrants the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.