Giving is the highest expression of potency.

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.

Every programmer is an author.

we often fall not because, not knowing how to walk but not knowing which way to choose.

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.