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.
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.
To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
The negative cautions of science are never popular.
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality...
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.
I’ve been married three times – and each time I married the right person.
Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
It has been a woman’s task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street, it couldn’t be anywhere but Canada, but how can I prove it?