Childhood

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference. They make all the difference.

There are no illegitimate children – only illegitimate parents.

What a child doesn’t receive he can seldom later give.

A child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

. . . within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

Many children, many cares. No children, no felicity.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until . . . we have stopped saying It got lost, and say I lost it.