My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

The future only gets brighter if we don’t forget to enlighten the present moment.

The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor.

The storm is here and now. The rains come and water floods our lives. Nothing last forever and the rainbow always appears.

Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement the less perfect our success.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.