To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

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.

A sad truth is that we don't know what we really believe! We don't know how we operate. We don't know what is holding us back. We don't know why we do what we do.

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

My wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.