Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

I graciously survived depression, mental-illness and attempt of suicide.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

I want to be healthy, to be there for my husband and my kids.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state.