Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo - Captain Kangaroo ... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday's children as well. It's nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, 'You were a good friend.' That's the warmest part.

The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.

My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.