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

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.

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