“Child development does not mean developing your child into the person you think they should be, but helping them develop into the best person they are meant to be.”

“The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!”

“Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.”

“Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way.”

“If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.”

“Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.”