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.

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

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.

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

The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

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