Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

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

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.