The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

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

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.