Children have more need of models than critics.

Children have more need of models than critics.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and read more

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things read more

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, read more

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in read more

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went read more

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the read more

A person should not promise to give a child something and then not give it, because in that way the child learns to lie.