Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.