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.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

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

Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

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.