My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children’s things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn’t know what a circle is, doesn’t know what red and green are, and doesn’t know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I’d like to say let your kids go out and play.

Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who’s out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

I’d like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I’d say you’re not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.

The baby’s life is never willfully destroyed because the mother’s life is in danger.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a doctor. The doctors I knew as a very young child must have helped to plant the desire in me, when I was as young as five or six. One homeopathic physician, Dr. Justice Gage Wright, was a great model.

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that’s a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That’s the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

You can’t talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.