Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?

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 customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.