Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

The hoarders, who are anxiously worried about losing something, are, psychologically speaking, the poor impoverished people, regardless of how much they have. Whoever is capable of giving of themselves is rich.

One cannot fall in love, really; one has to be in love.