"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"He is not a lover who does not love forever"

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

"I love to travel, but hate to arrive"

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame"

"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"