As great scientists have said and as all children know it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still small voice of God in their own hearts.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have it is a world that moves away from unequal unstable unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.

Many possessions if they do not make a man better are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.