A bunch of individuals do the same thing because they learned from watching each other or somebody else. That's what we would call culture.

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

Whales are cultural animals, and we're cultural animals, so although we shouldn't expect whales to do what we do, it doesn't seem unreasonable to hypothesize that we might share some of these things.

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.

Your real name is a mortal name. Now you need one that is immortal, the one that takes the high stage and plays above the rest. You can't be immortal and mortal at the same time.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Regulators are in the best position to regulate when they are intimately knowledgeable about the activities they are regulating.

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me.