The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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.

After failure, don't worry much. There will always be more opportunities and second chances.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.