Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

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.

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

I ordered a single espresso because I wanted a drink I could hook up with.

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.