Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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