Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

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

If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

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

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.