Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized.

Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.

Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Forgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Everybody funny, now you funny too.

God never leaves us alone, never leaves us unaided in the challenges that we face.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.