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" Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. "

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" What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. "

" Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. "

Sooner Or Later

" I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. "

" 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. "

Change The World

" I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. "

" 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. "

" The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. "

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

" 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. "

" Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. "

" Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. "

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

" I learned the value of hard work by working hard. "

" Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women. "

" Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. "

" It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. "

" Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. "

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