"If your team does not truly believe that you care about them, they will not follow you."

“Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.”

“Having to go through an intervention and family counseling is a wonderful experience. I would almost recommend it to anybody. It opens a lot of communication, and it opens old sores, but once it is opened and hashed out, the rewards are far greater.”

Source : "Susan Ford Bales: Ford's Daughter Enjoys Tulsa Time". Interview with Robby Trammell, newsok.com. November 13, 1989.

“For me, as far as skin, I'm a big advocate of facials. And I moisturize. And I read my magazines. I listen to good advice from people who really know, and I try to watch what I eat.”

“I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.”

“My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.”

“My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.”

“Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. Great Nature has another thing to do To you and me, so take the lively air, And, lovely, learn by going where to go. This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go.”

“When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.”