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.

We're not ashamed to use the word 'peace.'

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.