In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Images contaminate us like viruses.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

Adapt to every circumstance.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

If you share a faith, there is an immediate foundation of trust there.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

Life's a dance you learn as you go, sometimes you lead sometimes you follow, don't worry about what you don't know

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.