Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

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

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.