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

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.

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

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.

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.

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

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

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

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

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.