To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

As we can.