Californians, especially parents, would not willingly fill their homes with motor vehicle exhaust, and they should feel the same way about tobacco smoke.

The ideal person is out in the community getting feedback from other parents. We don't want hermits. We don't want anybody with a cause. . . . We're looking for parents with solid judgment who want to raise healthy kids and know that a lot goes into it.

After my parents died, people were always asking me, 'Where are the dancers? I had no idea they danced so much they were nicknamed 'the dancers.' In my family we always danced. We always went where music was involved.

Something's gotta give. The emotional cost of two parents working is debilitating - I'd rather take the financial loss and simplify than live with the emotional battering, upheaval and stress.

She was the first member of her family to go to college, and her parents wanted her to stay in Baltimore, but Smith gave her over $10,000 in a grant for her first year and that made the difference. She'd lived in Baltimore for 18 years, really didn't know anything about how people lived in other places, and we changed her life.

I remember coming out here every Memorial Day, because his parents are buried across the road, and we would put flowers on their graves, and I remember going to Forest Lawn in Buffalo to put flowers on the graves of the Civil War veterans there.