I got 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.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

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.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

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

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

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

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

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.

You are beautiful, not only because of your beauty, because of who you are.

Show your vulnerability, but have faith. You will succeed. Growth is not glamorous.

True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only beyond the deep ambivalence of infantile dependence.

All history is a lie!

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Yeah, but Jesus is the most important thing to me and I want to be bold about it.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.

Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.