Do not kill the childishness inside you. It is the state that connects you to God.

The lesser the baggage you have, the easiest will be the travelling in this world

First came him, then came I, then he came again and then I was lost forever.

More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.