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A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

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

I didn't have a happy childhood.

While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.

I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.