What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Be in the Now Moment—don’t squander your energy on a past you can’t change or a future which has not yet happened.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

Usually we are saying only part of the truth.

The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.