I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius but it really was a lucky break.

There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

I cannot live anywhere else except India.

The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!