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.

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

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

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.