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

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

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

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

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.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

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