It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.