The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.

No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.