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

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

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

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

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 institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.