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- Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert
- We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. — Henry David Thoreau
- Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. — P. J. O'Rourke
- Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. — P. J. O'Rourke
- Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. — P. J. O'Rourke