The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.
My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.