“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.”

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

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

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.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

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

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

The negative cautions of science are never popular.

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.

It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.

It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.

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

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

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.

I’d like to think our love does return to us reincarnated in different human forms. That people might be temporary, but love is permanent and it just changes form.

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals.

To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.