"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"

"The soul is healed by being with children"

"I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal"

"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them"

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals"

"Adults are obsolete children"