Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

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.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

On 11 September, I was living in Greenwich Village, New York; my children learned to tell south from north by looking at the World Trade Center.