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

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn't be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?

The mind is not sex-typed.

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.