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Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.

While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.