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

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

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

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

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.