"All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma"

"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

"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"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"