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.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

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.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

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