Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. – Benjamin Spock
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? – Benjamin Spock
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. – Benjamin Spock
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. – Benjamin Spock
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden