“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that bring them up and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yours...”

“Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.”

“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”

“When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but...”

“Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.”

“Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.”

“Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.”

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”