"I peeled off La Brea and went home and instantly made a reservation to come back to New York. Essentially, I fired everybody that was in my life, my agent, my lawyer, my manager, my girlfriend and came back to New York."

“An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.”

Source : Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing”, p.97, Bantam

“It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.”

“There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.”

“In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.”

Source : Douglas B. Reeves (2009). “Leading Change in Your School: How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results”, p.99, ASCD

“Winners aren't popular, losers often are.”

“Modern children were considerably less innocent than parents and the larger society supposed, and postmodern children are less competent than their parents and the society as a whole would like to believe. . . . The perception of childhood competence has shifted much of the responsibility for child protection and security from parents and society to children themselves.”

Source : David Elkind (2009). “Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance”, p.119, Harvard University Press

“Innovators are inevitably controversial.”

Source : Eva Le Gallienne (1966). “The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleonora Duse”

“My husband says that I'm afraid of heights, but that's not true. What I'm afraid of is falling.”