For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness

Every morning the sunrises to enlighten your heart so that a flower of hope can bloom in your garden.

There's nothing more romantic than self-destruction.

Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise.

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

I don't know who Keyser Soze is, but whoever he is, he is going to get gloriously drunk tonight.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

What is possible for you in Christ Jesus depends on your capacity to believe.

At times when I didn't have records out, the press has really kept me out there. My bad reputation has done wonderful things for me!