Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.

At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

When in doubt, " Calypso said, "Tater Tots.

Marry me, Zelda. We'll make it all up as we go. What do you say?

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

I just want a look so classic that I don't get made fun of for it later!

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.