“Being an adult isn't a matter of age. It's a matter of responsibility.”

“Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a gentleman is a matter of choice.”

“Adults are constantly telling teenagers that it's what's on the inside that matters. It's always painful to find out that adults have lied to you.”

“Maybe home isn't a place. Maybe it's a feeling you have inside of you, being around the people who matter to you”

“Age is artificial. It's soulless. It doesn't matter one bit.”

“True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as freedom FROM, it isn't simply a matter of being forced now to be good, against our wills and without our cooperation, but a matter of being released from slavery precisely into responsibility, into being able at last to choose, to exercise moral muscle, knowing both that one is doing it oneself and that the Spirit is at work within, that God himself is doing that which I too am doing.”