I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.
It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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.