Speaking calls for risk, speaking calls for a sense of what one has to lose. Not just what one has to gain.

Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

I was not allowed to talk about being adopted when growing up. I walked around feeling like I was going to explode.