Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

Keep waving someone who has closed his eyes only when you understand the fact that you are only exhausting your energy with the hope that one day he will open his eyes and see you waving him!

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori)

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.

It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.