“What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.”

“The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.”

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”

“within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.”

“A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.”

“The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?”