“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in… We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”

“The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.”

“To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.”

“We wince at the brutality of parents who ship their young kids around to perform for adults at the expense of their childhood — but, then, that was Mozart’s childhood, and though by the end Mozart may have wished for less attention as a kid performer and more as a grownup composer, he never for a moment wished not to be Mozart.”

“When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.”