Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.