A societies needs determines their ethics

Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.