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.

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

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

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

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

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

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.