Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.

If a child tells you a lie, tell him that he has told a lie, but don't call him a liar. If you define him as a liar, you break down his confidence in his own character.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children-and no theories.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain."

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

You know more than you think you do.

Making the decision to have a child-it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.

It is better to keep children to their duty by sense of honor and by kindness than by fear.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.