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 French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

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.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.