In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

I think we're all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.

Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.