True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.

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.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

There is hinkiness afoot with regard to my, ah, disposition.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.