So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

The best indicator of quality day care is the kid wants to go there, and doesn't want to go home.

It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.

We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.

The problem in child care, which really all of us are going to have to think hard on, is that there is no really great solution that we can come up with for ages zero to three.

I don't think if you take somebody's temperature a lot that will make them well.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q.

As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

My heart is one part predatorAnd one part saint!Most of it is crazyAnd a little bit too saneIt falls for allBut beats for noneIt’s one part brokenStill shoots like a machine gun!

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.