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.

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.

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.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

The threads of logic, intuition, and humanity should be beautifully interwoven through the fabric of our world.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

I've felt a little tired, but I'm only 24. I love playing football. That's my job and that's what I love doing.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.

Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.