"We are faced with the paradox that the more we try to avoid suffering, the more we suffer, because our fear of suffering is greater than the suffering itself."

"I am an atheist, but I must confess that I am also a pantheist."

"I should not hold it desirable that either a man or a woman should enter upon the serious business of a marriage intended to lead to children without having had previous sexual experience."

"There is a great deal of difference between an open mind and an empty head."

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."