Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

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.

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

When you give to others, you give to yourself.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.

As lyke as one pease is to another.

Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

I'm a real low profile guy. So a date night for me is kind of curled up at home and watching something... have a nice glass of wine, a nice meal and we're all set.