I’ve been married three times / and each time I married the right person.

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

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

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment

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

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

L’éducation est un processus culturel (…) par lequel chaque nouvel individu est transformé en membre à part entière d’une société humaine particulière, partageant avec les autres membres une culture particulière.

As Significant as the Invention of Drama or the Novel.

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

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

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

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms...

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

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.

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

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

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until...

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

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

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

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

The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in...

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women’s lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis...

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people’s lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the...

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country

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

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind...

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist — this is essential to the life...

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

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap...

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