Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions.

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

You have to stop in order to change direction.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.