When thinking about companions gone we feel ourselves doubly alone.

At the beginning and at the end of love the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

This then is the test we must set for ourselves not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world we have to act in concert with others but to survive as ourselves rather than simply as cogs in a wheel we have to act alone.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom whole worlds apart who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.