The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex

The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.