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You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.

I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they're not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Maybe I didn't have the childhood people think you should have, but I still went through the ages; I was still a child.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

I do not want any child in America to have my childhood because it was taken away from me because I just wasn't good enough; well I am good enough now.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.