“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” - JMM Barrie

“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.” - Louis Pasteur

“Second star to the right and straight on till morning.” - Peter Pan (by JMM Barrie)

“Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There\'s not a chance you\'d mistake one for another, after a minute\'s close in.)” - Neil Gaiman

“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you” - Kendall Hailey