If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.