The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

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.

It's ok if you can't level up, but It's not ok to level yourself down.

For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?

We are sentenced to die the day we are born.

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

Gratitude is an astoundingly reliable, immediate way of becoming present.

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

A politician before he can become a statesman has to remain in office long enough.

You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.

Life sure is easier when you're rich." "And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part." "How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.