Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

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.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.

I'm not imagining me being the James Bond girl, because anyway I don't have the good maturation.

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

[Niccolò] Machiavelli said it's better to be feared than to be loved.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

You walk a fine line when you have a performance at a show just as you do with having celebrities attend a show - you never want the attention to be drawn too far away from the clothing.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.