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

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

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

The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

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.

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.