The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of Marx,and we have done the greatest service to their propaganda by agreeing that that's what it is.

To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.

Giving is the highest expression of potency.

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