Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

Your mind believes what you tell it, so tell it positive things

Life is not complex at all when we do not think about it.

You see, with me, when I'm nervous, I smile and laugh.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

In life we encounter many people who, in some way or another, try to tattoo our faces.

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.

Facebook is great for getting upset about things people say even though you haven't seen them in 12 years.

We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.