One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

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.

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

People have the right to say what they want to.

People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.