Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves

The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men

I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen