the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.