In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

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.

Without sense of direction, efforts land nowhere.

Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!

It's a struggle but you have to keep going.

I guess, growing up at Australia Zoo and getting to travel all over the world, I have this great outlook on life, and that's what I hope I inspire other kids to have.

There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

I believe in the right to life.

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.