Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

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.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.