Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

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

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.