Do not let anyone stop you from succeding

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.

[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.

My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations

Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.

I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Mankind is unamendable.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.

Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.

Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.