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That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'

In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.'

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.