We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

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

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

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.