Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

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 am very grateful for all the opportunities life has given me.

A positive change has never been a result of worrying, complaining and making excuses instead of focusing on manifesting your true destiny.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.

I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.

When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.

I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.