"Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"No man is happy who does not think himself so"

"Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours"

"Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life"

"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you"

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home"

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"