“There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.”

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”

“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”

“Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.”

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”