“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

“A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more
than he.”

“If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.”

“…golf appeals to the idiot in us, and the child. … Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.”

“You have to understand, child. Everyone wants someone in their life, someone who cares for them, someone they can care for. Even a queen.”

“To withhold the rod is to put your child in the hand of Satan and co-operate with him in sending your child to hell!”

“Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.”

“Truth is simple. Very simple – so simple that a child can understand it. In fact, so simple that only a child can understand it. Unless you become a child again you will not be able to understand it.”

“There was one thing my murderer didn't understand; he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.”

“A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes… And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.”