To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

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

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

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.

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

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.