Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

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.

(after Quigley explains that the ghosts have been feeding off of their misery)Toma: So, what, we should think happy thoughts?!Duane: That is not a talent of mine.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

There is never a reason to give up! It's always going on somehow!

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

To live is not breathing it is action.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.