Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

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.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

The problem with opportunity cost is that opportunity cost is divided among many, many things.

Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate.

I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.