It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

We talk a great deal about Russia today, and I'm afraid that in twenty years, we and Russia will be more similar than different.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice of which they are the perpetrators and the victims.

There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those who were ready to condone every cruelty if it served their purpose; it has been used as a disguise under which to force people into sacrificing their own happiness, into submitting their whole self to those who profited from this surrender. [...] It has been made so empty that for many people love may mean no more than that two people have lived together for twenty years just without fighting more often than once a week.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.