The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.
It is typical, in America, that a person’s hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.
Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly...
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
The mind is not sex-typed.
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.