“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults.""You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.”

“Mother Goose!I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a frog's fundament for them when they come from an adult.”

“The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...”

“I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.”

“I jumped between them holding my hands up in front of me to stop the onslaught. We would all sit down and figure this out as rational adults. We’d been adults for a century at least, and it should not be a problem. It appeared to be a problem.”

“Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I'm not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.”