Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.