"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children"

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

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"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"

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

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage"

"While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together"

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about"

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance"