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

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.

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.

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

I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.

Enmity dies when friendship is born.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.