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

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.

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.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

We are gaining the knowledge science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

And Rob knew then that he had picked the right person to tell.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

Yes, there truly is a joy to giving.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

If I could do it over, I'd do better.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.