Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength of destructiveness. Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life.

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.