Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

I am a butterfly drunk with life. I don't know where to soar, but I won't allow life to clip my beautiful wings.

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is.

Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.