Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

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.

Seeing your child for the first time is rarest of occasions. You see glimpses of yourself from the past. The potential of a brand new life happening right before your eyes. And most importantly, that life begins again.