Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

It's always darkest before you're blinded by the light

Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.

Our first half is about how to make a living, and our second half has the promise of being about how to make a life.

I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God