Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation — is there a worst trade one makes in life?
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.