Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.

To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.