“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.”

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.”

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

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.

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

Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.

At times of crisis or distress, it’s poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people’s feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can’t.

I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

Courts have long recognized the federal government’s robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country.

The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

I can’t believe a war against drugs when they have anti-drug commercials on TV all day long followed by This Bud is for you.