A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.

If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

What does jealousy indicate? Jealousy is love manifested in the physical world. If you are jealous you have a debt to pay; if someone is jealous of you, he has a debt to pay to you.

Yours is only what you always have on you.

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

I think we have the worst name in rock, I really do. It's the worst name in the world

Wealth inequality has increased.

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.

Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

Donald Trump is in a partisan election, so he views the role differently than Mitch Landrieu and I who are are trying to lead our cities in a bipartisan or nonpartisan manner.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.