“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”

“People told me I shouldn’t take everything too seriously, and I didn’t listen. Now I wish I had, because I tormented myself over every little thing. What’s bad is when you get to age 19, you’re looking back thinking, “I wish I could be young again an”

“Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who’s the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.”

“Don’t you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your”

“Raising teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art”

“Why do they rate a movie “R” for “adult language?” The only people I hear using that language are teenagers”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mothers of Teenagers Know Why Animals Eat Their Young”

“A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers”

“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.”

“Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it’s the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.”

“Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.”

“Young people don’t know what age is, and old people forget what youth was”