The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . "Old age" should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.