Since the day of creation, the fondest hopes of men and women have been to pass on to their children something better than they themselves enjoyed. That hope represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every human breast.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

I'm trying to imitate Jesus in the fact that He said to be like children, to love children, to be as pure as children, and to make yourself as innocent, and to see the world through eyes of wonderment, and the whole magical quality of it all.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.