Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.