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

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

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

What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.

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.

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.

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.