“Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.”

“The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.”

“I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.”

“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.”

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

“Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.”