The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.