In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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.

Being friendzoned is like standing near fire. You stand there to seek some warmth, but get burnt instead.

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow, and time just - pools up, it seeps, it gathers in the corners.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

I was just endorsed by ICE. They've never endorsed anybody before on immigration. I was just endorsed by ICE. I was just recently endorsed - 16,500 Border Patrol agents.

I was always much too elated to imagine despair.

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.