If we're being unilateral, then communication does not happen, the relationship does not happen.

No kid should be getting three or four hours of homework a night. There's no breathing time, there's no family time, there are just extracurriculars and homework and then go to bed.

Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.

It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.

We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.

If a solution isn't mutually satisfactory, it's not going to stick.

When people are rushed, they're stressed and you greatly increase the likelihood of being punitive and unilateral just because you're trying to grasp control.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.

Is being responsible a form of love too?

But first on earth as vampire sentThy corpse shall from its tomb be rentThen gastly haunt thy native placeAnd suck the blood of all thy race

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.

Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.