Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

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.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

Do not let your opponent see your spirit

We'll know for the first time If we're evil or divine We're the last in line.