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.

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

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

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

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.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.