To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

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.

my mother and then my mom then my mom

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.

I personally think Prague is more romantic than Paris. If you have a girlfriend, take her there.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.]

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

Without you my air tastes like nothing. For you I hold my breath.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.