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.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

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.

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

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.

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.