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

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.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.

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

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.

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