Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

The judge speaks in the name of justice, ' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

I am an incredibly strong person and an incredibly fast person.

Hard. Fast. Deep. When I'm done you'll know you're mine.

I woke up today knowing everything about everything.

My future Plans - Marriage, a villa and 10 kids.

When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks.

We have to succeed, so we will.

I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.