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

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.

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.

A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to go there. Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.

Congress is back in season.

They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.