It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

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.