Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

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.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.

I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

We never begin worship. We aim it.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.