Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

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.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.

By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed and beautiful.

Service for one another, service for mankind,

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

Knock your bad self out.