Quotes in Youth

Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.