Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.