You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.
The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned.
Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.
It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his natural ways of acting. A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within himself the secret of human nature.
All men know their children mean more than life.
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.
Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.
I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.
Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.
