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

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?

Biologically and temperamentally… women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.

If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.

Don’t worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

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

Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

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

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

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.

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

Don’t take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don’t be overawed by what the experts say. Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.

The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

It’s not the words but the music that counts.

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.

[I listen to] “Uptown Funk”, Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress – I listen to that.

The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention – Remembering every step you make or anything that’s around you.

If you are blessed enough to become a Mom it is the most beautiful, rewarding feeling in the whole world.

Mother, I want to die this world is too cruel and I am too fragile.

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.