To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk t….

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conver….

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things..

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 ….

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

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal..

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born..

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

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in o….

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful..

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals..

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

What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible….

Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can ….

Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on ….

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one t….

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape ….

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

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?.

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which ha….

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met..