Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
There's an easy way to tell who won a fight, whether it occurs in a ring or in a schoolyard. Watch it with a second-grade boy and ask him the winner. He'll always know. If he doesn't know, the fight wasn't worth watching.
Ever since I was a child, I've just had this sense that I'm connected to the spiritual world. I thought everyone else felt the same way. I can hear voices - not all the time - but when I'm with certain people, it sometimes comes through.
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
You should always trust the instincts of children.
Kids have a way of letting you know if they like something or not. If a child of five says she doesn't like something, it means there is a problem.
