"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace"

"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"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

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

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"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"

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

"I love to travel, but hate to arrive"

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

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