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

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

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

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

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

The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch.

Most of us do not realize how much power we have.

Fate had a weird way of circling back over paths that were meant to cross.

You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.

Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.