To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

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.

Vision Birth Focus

I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

I didn't drink at all in school, so when I went to college, I went nuts. I was trying to catch up on all the partying I missed out on.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.

Just keep believing. This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now.