All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.

The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

I don't like things to be static when I'm working.

Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.