A boy is a magical creature—you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Every little boy should be taught how to be a man, but he should never be stripped of the ability to be a child.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.