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.

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.

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.

To be a best friend, the best word to live by is reciprocity.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.