Benjamin Spock

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. ”

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. ”

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care. ”

A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood. ”

People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D. ”

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ”

As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys. ”

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. ”

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. ”

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. ”