We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

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

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

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

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

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

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.