The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Children are the bridge to heaven.
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.
Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.
By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.
It is infinitely more useful for a child to hear a story told by a person than by computer. Because the greatest part of the learning experience lies not in the particular words of the story but in the involvement with the individual reading it.
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.