Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home.

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.

When a heart gets hurt, its pain comes over the words.”― Samar Sudha

I want to have a romance so grand, it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

We don't have to struggle or force situations to go our way. Instead, we can intend for everything to work out as it should, take action, and then allow opportunities to spontaneously emerge.

I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.