Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

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.

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.

I would love to start a cancer organization.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.