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

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.

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

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.

How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.

It’s an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States…

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.

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.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

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

People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”

My parents’ convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong.

The only marriage I’ve observed for any length of time is my parents – 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, ‘Pop, 35 years – what do you hope for?’ He’s like, ‘I hope you die first.’

Well to me growing, up I’ve had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned.

Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I’d dealt with my parents’ death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger.

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I’m not interested in hurting their feelings.

It’s what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I’m a family man.

Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with.