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

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

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

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

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.

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

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