Quotes:

On childhood, advice, ambition, fairness, and other things...

It is better to be quoteable than to be honest
   -Tom Stoppard

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
   -Brian Aldiss

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
   -Wendell Johnson

I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
   -John Wayne

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
   -Mark Twain

When I say I believe in a square deal I do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.
   -Theodore Roosevelt

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
   -Edmund Burke

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
   -Maya Angelou

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
   -Plato