 I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. |
| And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. |
| Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. |
| Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. |
| We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. |
| It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. |
| For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. |
| A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. |
| Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. |
| One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. |
| Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. |
| As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. |
| Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. |
| Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. |
| If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. |
| It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. Topics: Age |
| We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. |
| Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. |
| I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. |
| I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. |
