"Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it." ― Russell Baker Topic(s): Good Tags: children More From Russell Baker "Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity." "I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world." "A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul." More In Good "It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."― Voltaire "There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."― Niccolo Machiavelli "Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."― Thomas Carlyle