My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.