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.

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

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

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

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

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