We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

We love even when our love is not requited.

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Most of the great stories of love-in novels and plays-are stories of erotic love.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

We also say we love our freedom, which is something we certainly need but do not love.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.