You know more than you think you do.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

You know more than you think you do.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.

As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.

The child supplies the power, but the parents have to do the steering.

A child loves his play, not because it's easy, but because it's hard.

Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can't be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

I let people say and write what they want.

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.

Astrology is one of the great languages of our individual psyche's pulsing relationship to the collective dream.

Once you choose hope, anything is possible.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Africa is the future.

As much as it's sometimes hard to make choices about where you invest, it's equally hard to make choices about where you don't invest and what you eliminate.