The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

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

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

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

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

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

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.