“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won’t feel like watching.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.

Jesus Christ – He means the world to me. So many different situations I’ve been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood.

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.