My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.
It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
It's not the words but the music that counts.
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people.
Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.
The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.