Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
. . . the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office. I'm a huge supporter of on-site child care. You need much more sensitivity in the workplace to the challenges young women go through in trying to do two very difficult jobs well.
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.