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.

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.