Respect for one's parents is the highest duty of civil life.

Small children give you headache; big children heartache

To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

Beyond the mountains there are mountains again.

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud....