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“Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.”
Source : Viola Spolin (1963). “Improvisation for the theater: a handbook of teaching and directing techniques”
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“Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.”
Source : Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.32, Oneworld Publications
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“Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.”
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“When we encounter challenges and problems in our lives, it is often difficult for us to focus on our blessings. However, if we reach deep enough and look hard enough, we will be able to feel and recognize just how much we have been given.”
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“Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.”
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“Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection. A lack of discipline is apparent these days in just about every aspect of American society. Why? This should be is a much larger question, one to ponder as we take out the garbage and tie our kids' shoes.”
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“I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”
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“I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.”
Source : "Jourdan Dunn Opens Up About Son’s Illness, Being A Single Mother", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2011. 
