It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

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.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.