The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Charm which means the power to effect work without employing brute force is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm.

Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.

The husband by primitive instinct partly certainly by ancient tradition regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

Gosh, it's so fun to do a movie where there's nothing dark happening in it.

I don't believe that homosexuals really want to marry, most of them. They're all different, and some have different views.

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

I am geared towards communicating on a female level.

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat... I just feel really happy in the water.

'Battlestar' was 22 episodes - 9 to 10 months a year - and we were exhausted. You finish shooting, and the last thing you want to do is go back to work. You want those 3 months off because you're tired - it's a grueling shooting schedule.

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm.