Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor galaxy of one of the multiple trillions of universes. That's OK. It doesn't matter what form you take.

The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.