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

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

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

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

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

Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can be persuaded to hate millions of their own kind whom they have never seen and to kill as many as they can lay their hands on in the name of their tribe or their God.