Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

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.

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

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