“It has rightly been said that what we allow in moderation, our children will allow in excess.”

“Evil lives in the dark. We instinctively know it as children, but as we grow older we allow reason to cloud our judgement”

“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”

“Today women live long into their children's adult lives . . . too little is made of the pleasure we women feel in conversing with our grown children, and in allowing ourselves, from time to time, to think of them as friends. I have been fortunate in having children with whom conversation is possible; the sheerest pleasure here, for me, has been in meeting with them each alone . . . [p. 185]”

“The Queen's children must allow her the right to self-destruct while exerting their right to protect themselves.”

“Children are our future. We cannot allow them to run amok.-pg. 167 The Collected Sayings of the Emperor "The Demon's Daughter”