“A human mind was built for contact with similar minds. It should,in fact,it must think about what is going on around it; for, if it is shut up in a thick, dark, bony box of a skull, it will always ...”

“As you turn into a daddy, soon now, youll find that, on marrying, a man and woman start actually living.”

“But that did no harm, and a sad young mind found a way to match things up with an antagonist. Now, just stand a child up against your body. How tall is it? Possibly only up to your hip. Still, a ma...”

“All that did a big lot toward showing Youth that this big world is not half bad, if adults will but watch, aid, and coach. And I will not stand anybodys snapping at a child! Particularly a tiny tot...”

“Now this is a most satisfactory and important thing to think about, for brutality will not,cannot,accomplish what a kindly disposition will; and, if folks could only know how quickly a balky child ...”

“If you would only stop rating a childs ability by your own; and try to find out just what ability a child has, our young folks throughout this big world would show a surprisingly willing dispositio...”

“Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're c...”

“Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.I'd finally found somethi...”

“I gladly gave my aunt the privilege of scraping off all gum so my job wasnt as interesting or horrifying. I did find a few more menu drawings--a babys scribble, an elaborate tic-tac-toe board, and ...”

“I dont want any of this. I just want to be what I was before you showed up here and all hell broke loose. I want to be popular and dating the hottest guy in school. Now Im none of those things, and...”

“The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!”

“Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world e...”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”