Love Isn't A State Of Perfect Caring,

Children Who Have Learned To Be Comfortably Dependent Can Become Not Only Comfortably Independent But Also Comfortable With Having People Depend On Them. They Can Lean, Stand, And Be Leaned Upon, Because They Know What A Good Feeling It Can Be To Feel Needed.

When We Choose To Be Parents, We Accept Another Human Being As Part Of Ourselves, And A Large Part Of Our Emotional Selves Will Stay With That Person As Long As We Live. From That Time On, There Will Be Another Person On This Earth Whose Orbit Around Us Will Affect Us As Surely As The Moon Affects The Tides, And Affect Us In Some Ways More Deeply Than Anyone Else Can. Our Children Are Extensions Of Ourselves.

If You Could Only Sense How Important You Are To The Lives Of Those You Meet; How Important You Can Be To The People You May Never Even Dream Of. There Is Something Of Yourself That You Leave At Every Meeting With Another Person.

It's Really Easy To Fall Into The Trap Of Believing That What We Do Is More Important Than What We Are. Of Course, It's The Opposite That's True: What We Are Ultimately Determines What We Do!

This Is What I Give. I Give An Expression Of Care Every Day To Each Child, To Help Him Realize That He Is Unique. I End Each Program By Saying, 'you've Made This Day A Special Day By Just Your Being You. There's No Person In The Whole World Like You. And I Like You Just The Way You Are.' And I Feel That If We In Public Television Can Only Make It Clear That Feelings Are Mentionable And Manageable, We Will Have Done A Great Service.