We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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.

Every second counts

The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

The problem with procrastination is it’s been around since the beginning of time it seems.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.