Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.
A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.
Never blame what you are on what someone else is.
Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.
For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.