I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.

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.

When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision--then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

One age misunderstands another

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.

The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.

Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

There is no later. This is later.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.