Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

I didn't fully realize it at the time but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce in the next generation more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

During my travels in Iraq Israel Gaza Brazil Indonesia Japan Europe and all over the United States I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy education and healthcare for all renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.