History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

The only shame is the sin.

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

I just want to live my own life instead of everyone else’s version of it.

Books deliver information so that experience has a chance to exercise creativity.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.