With the ability to produce more goods than people need, consumer capitalism has to make children into consumers earlier and keep them at it longer. Hence contemporary America, a culture of perennial adolescents.
- Os Guinness
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.