Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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.

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.

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.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

You, too, can be carved anew by the details of your devotion.

Worship is the thank you that can't be silenced

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?