“It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl”

“Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!"Even saints have to start somewhere," Carl said softly. "And it's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.”

“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”

“The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.”

“The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.”

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”