“I had a happy, idyllic, old-fashioned childhood. Go to the town where I spent that childhood, you will not find my happy hours there. Yet they remain definite constituents of a divine reality about which true statements can still be made. My happy childhood was a gift my parents and the world offered to God.”

“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.”

“I think that Vietnam is what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

“I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.”

“Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.”

“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year… death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

“My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of half century.”

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

“Childhood whose very happiness is love.”

“A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.”