In our world of rampant individualisation, relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

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.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.

I think as long as you wear your imperfections on your sleeve, people respect it more.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

Music is my girlfriend, pretty much. It's makes it a little difficult, but I'm always looking, looking for the right girl.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.