Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.