A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true 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.

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

Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

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.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Children make your life important.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

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

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.