I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

I don't want to eat anything that has a mother

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.