It doesn't matter whether one uses God or doesn't. What matters is which experience a person has.

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.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

if you are not a fan of great consumer service, then you are not a fan of business ultimately not making you a fan of money.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

If I ever get a chance to be with you forever, I will like to be within you, to be explored and loved in silence.

Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.