You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.

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.

Let your infectious smile infect the whole world with love and joy.

If you're going on a journey take a rainbow with you because you never know who you are going to meet.

The struggle to live up to an “ideal image” of who we should be in order to feel safe misdirects and depletes our energy.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my brother's every orifice, he did.

They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

I am a great football player. I had my own club when I was 14 years old. Football is in my blood, and I have been a fan of Fulham for the last 30 years.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

At a certain point, I stopped seeing my clothing worn by people on the streets . . . It seemed like they were being treated as museum items.