“There are a lot of grown ups who, should be sent up to their rooms, and told they must stay there, until they learn they can play fair.”

“Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.”

“… if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.”

“Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.”

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ”

“The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.”

“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.”

“There are a lot of things we can learn from the Soviet Union. Naturally, we should learn from its advanced and not its backward experience. The slogan we have advocated all along is to draw on the advanced Soviet experience. Who told you to pick up its backward experience? Some people are so undiscriminating that they say a Russian fart is fragrant. That too is subjectivism. The Russians themselves say it stinks. Therefore, we should be analytical.”

“Now that you've grown up
You can finally learn to be a child
We made it to the end of the world
But we'll never make it out alive.”

“That's the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done”