No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

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

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.