“Misunderstandings are the main ruin of wonderful human relationships.”

“You want a happy romantic relationship? Don’t ruin it by getting married.”

“The main metaphor that is used to explain the historical relationship is that of the language family or family tree.”

“I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.”

“The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.”

“I believe that the main lesson of relativity and quantum theory is that the world is nothing but an evolving network of relationships.”

“All I can say is that effective communication is the cure for any relationship. At the same time, overdoing it will ruin everything.”

“A kiss may ruin a human life”

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”

“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”