Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

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.

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

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.

Hearing a crow with no mouthCry in the deepDarkness of the night, I feel a longing forMy father before he was born.

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.