What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.

Individual psychotherapy - that is engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient modest and a perceptive listener rather than a talker and advice-giver.

When I play live it's a conversation that we're all having with the song and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all in our heads and in our everyday behavior the fascism that causes us to love power to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired and that's fun.

In Washington DC politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is 'We like him and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy art poetry love scandal and the weather.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire even though the desire be unconscious intensity of life or completeness of experience the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether the trick they miss is that being called this thing with the weight of tradition behind it and with the association of the Royal family does allow you to have conversations and to open doors and wallets for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time but it is poetry in the memory.

When you're going through something whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody you often feel like 'Oh my God I'm so overwhelmed I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact poetry's a nice reminder that no everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

The question is what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.