I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed i….

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together..

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach..

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves..

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, ….

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being..

Britons put up with, Americans fix, Canadians cope.

Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the A….

There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman..

What are the determinative factors in the early training of the child which assures that it will be placid and contented, unaggressive and non-initia….

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning..

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world..

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible..

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can..

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdr….

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent..

Our human situation no longer permits us to make armed dichotomies between those who are good and those who are evil, those who are right and those w….

In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists..

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary..

Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more b….

I discovered when I had a child of my own that I had become a biased observer of small children. Instead of looking at them with affectionate but non….