Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

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.

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.

Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.