“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.”
“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”
“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
“When you have a great and difficult task, if you only work a little at a time—every day a little—suddenly the work will finish itself.”
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
“Conflict is the gadfly of thought.”
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”
“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
“Every sign can be cited and placed in quotation marks; in so doing it can break with every given context.”
“I have but one language—yet that language is not mine.”
“Deconstruction is not a method and cannot be transformed into one.”
“There is nothing outside the text.”
“Wherever God erects a house of prayer, the Devil always builds a chapel there.”
“Nature has left this tincture in the blood, that all men would be tyrants if they could.”
“It is never too late to be wise.”
“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”