Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

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.

And you know what I realize now? That we're all waiting on something, no matter where we are in life. It's the human condition.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

The Veteran's Administration is a disaster, the V.A., it's a disaster.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.