If I didn't have children I think my life would be a failure.

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did then success would be no success and failure would be no failure to us.

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Many children are natural fantasists I think perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

On the one hand we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand we can open all our own jars.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up and the values they bring to the viewing experience.

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is but there is terror: Your life as you know it is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over and something completely new starts.