What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.

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

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.

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

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

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 French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.