Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Everybody talks about being rich, Cosmic Ordering does something about it.

Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas.

You will be influential and powerful in the field of your gift and talent

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.