When I was a kid there was a show called 'Holmes & Yo-Yo' about a robot cop. I LOVED that show and I think it only lasted like three episodes..

I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an outdoor person. I would win the summer reading contes….

Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple..

One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed….

One of the greatest predictors of academic success that exist is the emotional stability of the home. So if parents are interested in education refor….

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand c….

I was one of the kids who sold Cokes in the stadium. It was a lot of fun being around that environment, watching games and visualizing being there wh….

I think I'm damn lucky. I'm lucky that my kids are all straight, that they haven't ended up in jail, that they're all worthwhile human beings, thank ….

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids..

I've been realizing lately how horribly vain I am. I do believe that if I'm successful, it's because of my talent and intelligence, but there's prett….

It's also important, particularly for privileged kids, to involve them in charitable activities. It's a way of raising consciousness for your kids so….

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time..

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War sci….

I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because its not about you. You are a terminal fo….

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?.

When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's….

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and….

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Ab….

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family..

...all these kids you can't seem to make sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the p….

The Obama administration doesn't see schools as a public good. It doesn't see schools as places where basically we can educate students in a way to t….