“It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.”

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”

“It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.”

“The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.”

“From age four to five we are all romantics; we are all embryonic royalty, budding ballerinas, or intrepid astronauts; we are all fearless, open, affectionate, and beautiful.”

“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929”

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”