Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child’s life, we add light and healing to our own lives.
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, last and always.
My business is making people, especially children, happy.
The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role models.
Childhood decisions do not have to define you.
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.
The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.
Play is the work of the child.
A child needs freedom within limits.
Within the child lies the fate of the future.