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Opinion: Quotes of the week

"A 10-year-old could do it. Dive within, transcendand experience this pure bliss, the engine that runs the universe" - Film director David Lynch calls for the introduction of transcendental meditationinBritish schools

- "Parents might be more willing to allow kids to go out more on their own if they could check up where they are" - Martin Taylor, sales director at Asset Monitoring Solutions, a company producing clothes for teenagers with in-built trackers so parents can locate their children

- "Children do not have the balance or maturity tomake a judicial decision. We are amazed suchameaningless exercise should have been given somuch taxpayers' money" - John Fassenfelt, chair of the Magistrates' Association's youth courts committee, ontheuse of peer panels to sentence teenage criminals.

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