Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

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 easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God

If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.

The investment game is getting more and more competitive.

I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.

I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

One of the most beautiful ways you can give is giving of yourself and your time.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

I'm like the Christina Aguilera of the Internet.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.