Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.