the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, d….

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anyth….

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk uprigh….

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself..

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened..

where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out….

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather..

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may re….

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible..

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions ….

Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child a….

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world..

The most extraordinary thing about a really good teacher is that he or she transcends accepted educational methods. Such methods are designed to help….

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and ….

Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave t….

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce..

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown..

There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which there is no ex….

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have reco….

Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them..

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks ….