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.

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

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.

Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.

Ninety percent of writing is about listening.

This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday, mum!"

Start believing bigger, dreaming bigger & expecting bigger.

Money really, really matters.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.