Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

The internet in general and social networking sites in particular are making people more reclusive than social.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more think less and stop watching ourselves live.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Maybe miracles are given not to prove anything, but simply to remind us that the physical world is not so solid and real and dependable as we think.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Give your customers what they want today, and help them see tomorrow.

Lord, let me live until I die.