Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

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.

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

I am pretty diligent with my fitness routine. I am not like a crazy workout-holic, but I stay active.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.