"You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it."

“This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.”

Source : Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.48, BookBaby

“And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.”

“I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me”

“Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.”

“The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.”

“Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.”

“Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.”

“I was the most subtle person in the world.”