To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.

When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.