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.

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.

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.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

This is the best worst time of my life.

Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.

The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?

The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.

When you're onstage, you can see the front row and get a general impression of what's going on, but you're in your own zone.

Knowin' all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein' a good whittler.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

Her name is Wanda, not it. You will not touch her. Any mark you leave on her, I will double on your worthless hide.