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

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

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.