I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.
As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met.
Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.
