You know, nothing is more important than education because nowhere are our stakes higher, our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth, for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.

My wife, and my three kids, and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Always be nice to your children, because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them, their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.