Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

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

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.