So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

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

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

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.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

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