Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.

I don't mind the audience identifying me with Red.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason.

The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.