Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.'

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

When we let others control us by the threat of disapproval and rejection, we give up far too much of ourselves and make it impossible for us to engage in authentic relationships.

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Love is an act of courage.

So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.