Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

Technology makes the world a new place.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet.

Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and, with it, a crisis of confidence inthe possibility of certain knowledge.

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.

There are reports that French President Francois Hollande had an affair with an actress who is 18 years younger than him. It's pretty serious. Under French law, he could face up to 30 high fives.

I usually never, ever get nervous before a regular show. But a TV show? I'm always nervous because you know you gotta nail that song.

I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.