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.

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

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

What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate.

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.