Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.

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 had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?