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.

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.

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 old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.

maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

While "9 Songs" is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.