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.

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.

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.

I do not seek. I find.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappi-ness if allowed to grow.

Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it.

I don't dress any particular way to impress anyone or market myself for my music. It's actually who I am.

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

When you're an actor on set, people treat you like a giant baby. They don't let you do anything. Like, "Do you need any food? Do you need the bathroom?"

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.