It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

I think the important thing about sisters is that they share the same minute, familiar life-style, the same little sets of rules. Therefore they can keep house with each other late in life, because they share the same bunch of housewifely prejudices. The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves