In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope.

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.

Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

The Tao never acts with force, yet there is nothing that it can not do.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.