In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

I have been blessed with working with the best in the business.

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.

I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America.

Even in an empty room, we are never alone.

Danny: I’m a bit jealous, Sheila.Sheila: Are you, my dear? What on earth for?Danny: Well, because you’ve really lived, Sheila.Sheila: Of course I have, Daniel. What else is life for?

Problems comes and goes that's why don't have to act like you own them, Million of human kind they have exact problems as yours, so how can you call them your problems.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.