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.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.