Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

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.

Some people make a difference, some people make you different.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

Spiral minds are harder to twist.

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.