Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.

There's two of me. The person I carry around like a dead carcass inside of me and the one I show to others.

I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.

Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

I really hope that what we are doing inspires young Mexican girls not to be afraid to get involved in sports.

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.

I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.