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.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference.

I was not going to allow myself to really believe that I was free until I was actually free.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

Control your destiny or somebody will.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor).

A healthy mind breeds a healthy body and visa versa!