Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

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.

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work

Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

I came out of Bataan and I shall return!

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.

But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'