‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.