"I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"

"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"

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

"Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it"

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

"Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature"

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

"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"