If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn’t enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
Tell the children the truth.
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
What maintains one Vice would bring up two Children.
They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind—yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
People like you and me, though mortal, of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.