Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother.

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

If women and men want to be treated as adults they must begin to act without the childish selfishness that pollutes our world.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the hunger of a child.

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.

The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

She wished she had eyes like her sister, huge and bright, constantly straddling the line between terrified child and ingénue.