Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

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

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.