“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Optimist's Daughter

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism <!-- p. 185 -->
Context: The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world. Thus the adult leads the child to the notion of objective responsibility, and consolidates in consequence a tendency that is already natural to the spontaneous mentality of little children.

Source: Stargirl

The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)