Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

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.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it but there's a complete mix of 80s rubbish and current day stuff.

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

It's fun being on a TV show and not having to wear heels.

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.