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.

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

The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.