The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child

I want to make it clear the kid did everything he was supposed to do. It was an adult error.

Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that’s no longer valid. They used to be kids, then they became adults – but what are they...

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because...

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

We are there to serve their needs, they are not there to serve ours. That’s lost on a lot of adults.

A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.

Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids

It’s becoming harder and harder to argue that embryonic cells have uses that adult cells do not.

In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is...

The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!

Clearly an adult must be responsible enough to come in and ensure that doesn’t happen.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.

It was good to finally be sitting at the adults’ table. My first few years here, I wasn’t part of it at all.

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world...

We should be serving the kids’ needs, but there’s an interesting dynamic here. There’s far too many adults out there who think it’s about the kids serving their needs or performing for them.

Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it’s always because they know why.

As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to.

tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

Tigers are not stuffed toys. Cute babies grow up to be unmanageable adults who are often relegated to cramped cages or dungeon-like basements or are simply abandoned.

Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago....

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.