“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.

I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too big a risk to take up cricket as a career. I thought I had to live up to my family’s expectations. So I chose to be an engineer.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Kids look up to me. I’m not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.

It’s the true meaning of music being a universal language, constantly fighting and going through different boundaries in order for new people to hear the music and be like, “Oh, sh*t! I mess with this Pitbull kid.”

My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well.