Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

A little child is immoral, he has no internal inhibitions against pleasures.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.