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.

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.

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

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.

In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.

A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don't do nothin but make music.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.