If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.