The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

When you are through changing, you are through.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.

I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.

I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.