Children need admiration rather than affection. - Celia Green

Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learned to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense. This is why they talk so much about the value of human understanding and sympathy - it has a certain rarity value in their world.

Democracy: everyone should have an equal opportunity to obstruct everybody else.

The fact that something is far-fetched is no reason why it should not be true; it cannot be as far-fetched as the fact that something exists.