The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.
I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult - that kind of made me nervous.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.
I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.
Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.
The written revelation of God is in the world, but men heed it not. Instead, they look for knowledge where it is not to be found.
The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.
