It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.

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.

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.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

Television can only destroy.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.