Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.