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

laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

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

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.