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

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

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

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

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….

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

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….