It's never to late for a happy childhood.

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Male silence is not the same as listening

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.