Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.