If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up I liked Dr. Seuss.

Growing up my ideals were Barbra Streisand Cher and my mom.

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Growing up my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

In response to our fast-food culture a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.

My parents had an arranged marriage as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it and I will continue to write about it.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

True love doesn't happen right away it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs when you've suffered together cried together laughed together.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle love is a war love is a growing up.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental emotional spiritual as well as physical.

Growing up my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head that I couldn't afford to actually do.

I avoid the media circus keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something you're growing and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

Again the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing.

I'm constantly learning and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

What matters to me is learning and growing and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that I'm happy.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation as learning as growing if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time what wonderful horizons open out!

The purpose of learning is growth and our minds unlike our bodies can continue growing as we continue to live.