“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”

“You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.”

“You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!”

“When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.”

“If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.”

“It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.”