When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

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.

For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up to you since the time of your birth.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

I think pimp, therefore i am.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

I get mail; therefore I am.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.