Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable and, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving.

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God