"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?"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

"Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion"

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"

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