Life is in one of its smoother phases ... I've no responsibilities in the world except friends and students and cherishing the life of the world -- and the belief that there is enough love to go round.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.