Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

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.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

Today's sales should be better than yesterday's - and worse than tomorrow's.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.

Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.