All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.