Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

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Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

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Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built

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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism

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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

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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?

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The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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

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

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One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

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