We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

The future is not to be forecast but created.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence, in the end, is rewarded.

An ideal culture makes a place for every human gift.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren to be a full human being.

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

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, to have what you really want.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

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

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.