Ashley Montagu

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.