The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
It's not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.