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.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

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.