We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.

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.

People who know the value of time are always doing something valuable with their time.

Be Positive. Be Passionate. Be Persistent. Be Poetic.

He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.

The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us.

I look forward to the challenge, but most importantly, I look forward to the opportunity to do what hasn't been done that often, in a sense. Michael Jordan obviously has done it, but that's it.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.