If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 'pleasing personality' - and you need to have a pleasing personality if you want to sell your services, whether as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

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

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

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

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.