“A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and don’t always state. You know my fury about people is based precisely on the fact that I consider them to be responsible, moral creatures who so often do not act that way. But I am not surprised when they do. I am not that wretched a pessimist, and I wouldn’t sound the way I sound if I did not expect what I expect from human beings, if I didn’t have some ultimate faith and love, faith in them and love for them. You see, I am a human being too, and I have no right to stand in judgment of the world as though I am not a part of it. What I am demanding of other people is what I am demanding of myself.'- James Baldwin”

“Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like Buckminster Fuller's. She found thoughts dull that suggest that men are superior to animals or plants.”

“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”

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

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

“A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

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

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

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

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

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