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Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

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.

Illness and problems are the specialties of life. But the death of a child is a cause of mental agony which can be overcome if one concedes this world to be a stage or stadium wherein praiseworthy are those who are not proud of their achievement and those who do not cry at their defeat.