We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.