We are already and will remain all in the same boat.

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.

It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

I love to smile.

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Truth matters. Everything we can do to find, feed, and strengthen it is worth the effort.

We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads.

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?