In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?'

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

It is interesting that amongst children of preschool age, the more intelligent ones tend to sleep less than the dull ones. After the age of seven this relationship is reversed, the more intelligent schoolchildren sleeping more than the dull ones.