Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

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.

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

Love is my love, love is my religion.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

I do not speak for the White House correspondents association. I'm not a member.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.