I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.