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

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.

What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions?

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

To reach any significant goal, you must leave your comfort zone.

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?