In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited.
Mortimer Adler

Love without conversation is impossible.
Mortimer Adler

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
Mortimer Adler

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
Mortimer Adler

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
Mortimer Adler

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Mortimer Adler