Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

The ultimate use of power is to empower others.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

I don't know what I could do besides sing but I'm not worried because I figure I've got the rest of my life to find out!

Maybe the Clinton chapter is over now. They've brought enough disgrace to America, the presidency, and the state department. They corrupted the Justice Department.

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.