As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

Women have an important contribution to make.

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.