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!

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Books - the children of the brain.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and, though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

We have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

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

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Children are all foreigners.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.