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.

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.

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.

If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is but the conviction that there is a mystery and that it is greater than us.

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

Without a vision the people perish.

I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.