“In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.”

“But some children have clearer vision than adults.”

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”

“Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.”

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”

“Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something…. My theory is a children's book… can be just for fun.”

“Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?”

“In many matters children — not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition — judge far truer than adults.”

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”