Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.

If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.