Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

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.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions.

Those we murder with our mouths often live longest

How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

Happiness comes towards those which believe in him

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible.

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it- you're halfway to Asphodel already.

I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.