I think it is better to love your children than to love God, a thousand times better, because you can help them, and I am inclined to think that God can get along without you. Certainly we cannot help a being without body, parts, or passions!

I tell you the children have the same rights that we have, and we ought to treat them as though they were human beings. They should be reared with love, with k…

I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality.

I tell you God cannot afford to damn a man in the next world who has made a happy family in this. God cannot afford to cast over the battlements of heaven the …

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.