The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.