Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.

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

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

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

As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.