Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Freedom does not mean license.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Love is a power which produces love.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Greed has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
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.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
