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

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

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

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

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.

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.