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.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

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

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.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor.