Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

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.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.

The normal make a living. The deranged make history.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

The fundamental things apply As time goes by.

People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.