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.

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.

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

It doesn't matter what others are doingIt matters what YOU are doing.

No pleasure without pain.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis, we will react heroically and with humanity.

The rest of what I learned about baseball came from Peter Gammons, the Boston Globe's best baseball writer when I was in high school.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Action that comes from the feeling of inspiration is action that will produce good results, for you are allowing the Laws of Attraction of the Universe to carry you.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.