Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.