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

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

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

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.