Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and….

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can beco….

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their c….

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live l….

All social change comes from the passion of individuals..

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the ind….

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water..

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity..

What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happe….

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to….

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again..

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of th….

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like..

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another..

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen ….

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, ….

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely..

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen..

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else..

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin..