Benjamin Spock quotes

" Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. " # Happiness # Love # Business

" Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. " # Trust

" In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. " # Children # Parents and Parenting # Automobiles

" I really learned it all from mothers. " # Mothers

" The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. " # Children # Babies # Fathers

" What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble " # Doctors

" I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values. " # Death and Dying # Spirit and Spirituality # Love

" People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics." I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics." " # Work

" I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. " # Marriage # Style # Age and Aging

" Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense. " # Writers and Writing # Experts # Trust