Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

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.

Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

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

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.