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

It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

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

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

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.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.