To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.