When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

There are so many ways to respond to music besides feeling like someone's communicating with you. It gives me a charge.

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].