Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

Wonder is very important, because if we never wondered, we would never get to the point of asking questions. Yet wonder may lead people to write poetry or to paint pictures or to pray, as well as to ask the kinds of questions about the world and themselves that can be answered by science.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.