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

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

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

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.

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

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.