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

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.

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

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.

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.

Lesson Number One in controlling a man: find his weakness. Every man had one.

Don't spend your life collecting other peoples postcards

Your reasons for not loving me just make me love you more.

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

A Compassionate state of mind brings inner peace, and therefore a healthier body.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?

The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.