Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is I think to have a happy childhood.

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

An honest man is always a child.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time when you get out of bed it's feet first!

Love is like a child, that longs for everything it can come by.

Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Having a home, husband and child ought to be enough for any woman's life. I mean, that's what we are meant for, isn't it? But still I think every day is a lost day. As if only half of me is alive. The other half is pressed down in a bag and suffocated.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.