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

I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.

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 love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing...I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.

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

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

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