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

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

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

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

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 love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.

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.