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.

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

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

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

Those who love the young best stay young longer.