“The soul is healed by being with children.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.” – Bill Cosby

“Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they’re not treating them as possessions or toys.” – Charles De Lint

“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” – Bible

“We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.” – Henry Ford

“Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house.” – Susan Glaspell

“Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.” – Stephanie Martson

“Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.” – Ray Merrit

“Stay a child while you can be a child.” – Stephen Sondheim

“Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of “déjà vu,” when you are used to existence, you become an adult.” – Eugene Ionesco

“Children are our most valuable resource.” — Herbert Hoover

“You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.” — Barbara Bush