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

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.

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.

Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people.

Canada is the place where maple syrup is its own food group.

Every human heart is human.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

When you're really good, NO ONE is competition. NO ONE!

That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.