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 violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

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.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

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.

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