Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.

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

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

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

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

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.

O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.

I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened.

I'm glad that I lost, I'm glad that I failed, I'm glad that I felt that way and decided to do something about it... I never wanted to feel that way again and it drove me.

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.