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.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.

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

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.