The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

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

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

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

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

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.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

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

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

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

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it

There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience.

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.

In the end it is the musician who actually plays the notes. The impresario - or the project leader - is only there to make sure that happens. That is a very different type of management mind-set.