When I was at school I was in choirs more than anything else from a very young age about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age nurtured in your home you don't get them.

My mother was 45 when she had me so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

Brain power improves by brain use just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population from school days to late middle age now have very complicated lives indeed.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school earlier age at the computer and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Children under five are the poorest age group in America and one in four infants toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30 oh I'm 40 oh 50.' Make the most of it.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.