Children need to trust and depend upon those who are responsible for them.

Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.

Children do not experience our intentions, no matter how heartfelt. They experience what we manifest in tone and behavior.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

I think Congress can pass a bill when the American people start regaining trust in the administration to actually do their job and enforce the laws that are already on the books.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

Eventually, I want to finish my degree.