All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents

The recruiting environment is difficult right now. We see hesitation … (and) concern among parents about their son or daughter's safety.

I want the parents to know that it is a safe environment.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.