In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

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.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life!

We do what we like, and we like what we do.

I hate to see a woman cry, unless of course I'm crying first in which case I feel it's appropriate.

Russian fighters are always bouncing around and using a lot of effort with the punches they throw and grinding for takedowns. Anyone would get tired with that style.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.

There's some are fou o' love divine; There's some are fou o' brandy.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.