There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences

For the record, telling your boyfriend that your not-as-dead-as-you-might-have-implied mother has been arrested for murder doesn’t go over well

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible.