The root of the word education is e-ducere, literally, to lead forth, or to bring out something which is potentially present.

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.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

True experiences of angels always lead to a greater unity.

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

In fact the total amount that a physicist knows is very little. He has only to remember the rules to get him from one place to another and he is all right.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.