Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way... if it comes from the heart.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

I don't need to Google myself.

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'