Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.

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

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

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is, there is no such thing as love. Love is an abstraction, perhaps a goddess or an alien being, although nobody has ever seen this goddess. In reality, there exists only the act of loving. To love is a productive activity. It implies caring for, knowing, responding, affirming, enjoying: the person, the tree, the painting, the idea. It means bringing to life, increasing his/her/its aliveness. It is a process, self-renewing and self increasing.

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