« The first story is that of my first contact with a nine-month-old infant who is now a forty-year-old woman, still stuck in her autistic world. Funny start for a book that wants to be optimistic! »

« Culture is the foundation of the future. »

« I have come to believe, after all these years, that parents are of little use in the development of their children. I'm barely exaggerating! Let us say instead that children are masters of their destiny, with the support and participation of their parents. otherwise what would we see? Good parents would make good children and bad parents would have bad children. But it's impossible. And false, totally false. You can see it in large families. All children have the same parents, but they are all different. Because they have their character, their personality, and each one makes a different psychological representation of his parents. Parents are accountable for the child's progress, rather than producing this progress. The child depends first of all on himself, the parents adapt to him more than the other way around. In parenting roles, there is, in my view, more adaptability than education. »