What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.