Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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.

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.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

And my little sister died when she was 16.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.