It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

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

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.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

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 must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.