I think people don't want to be persuaded. And people don't even like to do the persuading.

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.

I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.

We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

Besides being driven around Manhattan by a chauffeur whose salary his father's company paid, in a Cadillac his father's company leased to 'scope out properties,' Donald's job description seems to have...

Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a...

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.