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.

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.

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.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

I played Luke Skywalker. Every time we played, I was Luke Skywalker. Nobody else could be Luke Skywalker.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.