Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

the highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.

A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

We all wanted babies - but did any of us want children?