I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.