... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.

perhaps there is something more than courtesy behind the dissembling reticence of childhood. ... Most artists dislike having their incomplete work considered and discussed and this analogy, I think, is valid. The child is incomplete, too, and is constantly experimenting as he seeks his own style of thought and feeling.

With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.

Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy

It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.