In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.

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

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

Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.