Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

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 English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

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.

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