"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death."

"Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society."

"The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done"

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."

"We as a nation need to be re-educated about the necessary andsufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents -but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organization, committees, boards- and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.