Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

No it isn't very pretty, what a town without pity can do.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist

It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.

Scars on the back are a swordsman’s shame.