To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

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

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

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