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Little girl's definition of conscience: "Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life -- to God. As the old saying puts it: "What I gave I have." We have to love them and lose them.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

With children we must mix gentleness with firmness. They must not always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted.

There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it -- benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their "good" subjects and punishment to their "bad" ones, who are amused at the "cleverness" of children and annoyed by their "stupidities.

In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

With a child in the house, all corners all full.