The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

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

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.