Children increase the cares of life, but mitigate the remembrance of death.

On my first day of school my parents dropped me off at the wrong nursery. There I was… surrounded by trees and bushes.

What should not be heard by little ears should not be said by big mouths.

In raising your children spend half as much money and twice as much time.

A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

Priorities A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove… but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Never strike a child except in anger.

If your children spend most of their time in other people’s houses, you’re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you’re blessed.

A child is not a vase to filled but a fire to be lit.