Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

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.

Try to see the good in all things...

There was no slow build. No peaceful meander to the summit. It was like sheet lighting stretching across a stormy sky—beautiful and blinding. I leaned forward and seized his mouth with mine.

If a lion can growl, why shouldn’t a man cry?

When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

There's nothing like work to take your mind off your worries.

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films, I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Success does not come all at once; even for masters it comes in stages, separated by years.