“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a chil...”

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.”

“There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.”

“If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”

“a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.”

“Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the avera...”

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

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”

“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”