I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

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.

The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.

Women are responsible for the people in the family having pants.

I'm not a yeller. My theory is that no one goes out there trying to screw up.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

When I die, so does hip hop.

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.