It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

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

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

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.

We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing.