Was 9/11 not the 20th congress of the American Dream?

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Think, speak and act positively.

Your health is a testament to your life. The better your quality of health, in all likelihood the longer your life.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

A life without love is like a year without spring.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.