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

“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.”