The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

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.

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

There has been a fundamental paradigm shift. Today's customer expectations are: If i can imagine it, it simply has to be there; if not, I'll invent it myself'

The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities.

No," says Ariana. "It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.