A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean bottom, and has not drowned. What now?

Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds.

All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.

Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

No one can soothe my inner being like you. No one can make me look to the future with such excitement like you did. No one can understand me, fulfill me, fit me like you did." ~Emma Ranstein

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on.

Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hoping hard for that.

There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

You can't look good and feel good if you're worried about whether your deodorant is working or not.