I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.