Ever since I was a child I've had a passion for colors and a sixth sense and known how to use it. I started in fashion, but I got side-tracked by psy….

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree..

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five..

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child..

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer..

If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text w….

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and th….

California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. Bu….

Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health..

What you do for money you do badly..

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not ….

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child..

Reading aloud is the best advertisement because it works. It allows a child to sample the delights of reading and conditions him to believe that read….

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly..

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that ….

The first idea of Captain Fantastic was a pretty radically different one. The genesis had to do with parenting and questions about parenthood and fat….

Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab ….

After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christ….

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month..

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us t….

You will meet their children through their eyes. One of the most poignant moments is when I asked each to describe the moment they found out their ch….