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?

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

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

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

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."

I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

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.