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

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

No skill, no special apti­tude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it was of one sex rather than the other. No child would be relentlessly shaped to one pattern of behavior, but instead there should be many patterns, in a world that had learned to allow to each individual the pattern which was most congenial to his gifts.