That is not quite enough to make one happy, if one spends eight hours a day in something which in itself has no meaning and interest, except that one gains money from 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.

Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and you will make of their circumstances the litter you have made of your own.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.

Probably all of my advice is bad advice.

reality can be magnificent even when life is not.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.