There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war, enough killing. Enough. No more.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

I do not like to be unkind.

Los Angeles is a city known as much for its sun as for its stars and its dirty air.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

How well I would write if I were not here!

You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.

Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.