Nothing you do for CHILDREN is ever wasted. They seem not to notice US, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom OFFER thanks, but what we do for them is NEVER wasted.

I have one brother, JOHN, an airline pilot, who is SEVEN YEARS younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when DAD's brother died, they adopted John, then just a BABY.

Child LABOR and poverty are inevitably BOUND together and if you continue to USE the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of TIME.

I won't start quite at the beginning... but the emigration of my parents from Nazi Germany and their NEW LIFE in the U.S.A. A one sentence summary of these events is that after some YEARS of trouble and considerable hard work, my parents established a satisfactory if not COMFORTABLE life for themselves and their two children.

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more EXCITING than ANYTHING a TEACHER in FRONT of a CLASSROOM can do.

No FAMILY should have to DEPEND on the labor of its CHILDREN to put food on the table and no person should be FORCED to work in captivity.

I USED to work with autistic children, and they SAID a lot of FUNNY things to me.

I am very happy to say I LOOK just like my dad. But mothers always think their CHILDREN are prettier than they really are, and MINE has always told me I look like TOM Cruise.

I have LEARNED that RAISING children is the single most DIFFICULT thing in the world to do. It TAKES hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding EXPERIENCE that you can ever have.

There is NOTHING FUNNY about HALLOWEEN. This sarcastic FESTIVAL reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by CHILDREN on the adult world.

We should not TEACH CHILDREN the SCIENCES; but GIVE them a TASTE for them.

The most SOPHISTICATED PEOPLE I KNOW - INSIDE they are all CHILDREN.