It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.

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.

If you have a dream as a child, but you let it go cold, you will grow old only to realize that you have sold your gold for no royalty!

I worry about anything happening to you ... because I truly love you, every bit of you.

Look here, my boy, if you have average intelligence, about half the things you do are bound to be right, which is a fair achievement for any career. Don't spend sleepless nights over them.

Discipline is needed in our eating habit.

This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.

All art is but imitation of nature.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

I'm a really cheesy romantic I like to light candles and listen to romantic music

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.