One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which will seek expression in later life in violent acts towards others. The sooner we understand that love and gentleness are the only kinds of called-far behavior towards children, the better. The child, especially, learns to become the kind of human being that he or she has experienced. This should be fully understood by all caregivers.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable