'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

Why love what you will lose?There is nothing else to love.

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!