"The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority.... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous.... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher."

“When I started making films I just decided "I'm the filmmaking equivalent of a garage band and I'll just make my garage band movies." But even the same musicians from garage bands would go to my movies and you could tell what they liked from the way that they dressed and they would be the first ones to walk out.”

“I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes,

“I know I'm no Whitney Houston.”

“Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.”

“Everything that happens-good and bad-should motivate you to be persistent.”

Source : Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.136, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

“We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.”

“I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.”

“The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”