In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

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

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 agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.