I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

It's just strange to think about...whether I'll be an artist or what I'll be doing.

You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule