"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you..." — Erich Fromm

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

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

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.