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“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”
Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd
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“A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.”
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“A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.”
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“The true object of religion is to bind mankind together, and to bind them all to God. If we see that in the name of religion, men, instead of promoting peace on earth and good-will among men, are trying to show their antagonism and animosity towards each other, then certainly we must stand forward with our voice of protest, and say that religion is defeating its own legitimate object.”
Source : Speech delivered at Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London, in a meeting held to constitute a Theistic Association in London, July 20, 1870.
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“I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.”
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“A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.”
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“In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.”
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“In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.”
Source : Xiaobo Liu, E. Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao (2012). “No Enemies, No Hatred”, p.102, Harvard University Press
