To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.