For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

The I is always in the field of the Other.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.