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

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

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

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

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

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.

I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it. . . . So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.