Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Children pay better attention than grownups.
Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.
Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parent’s own rule.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by what he says.
Children are easily swayed by religion, which is why it is a good thing that most eventually grow into sense.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue-prints of your ultimate achievements.
