In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

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