Education is the key. With a really good education, you have a much broader view of the world. Well-educated people can seek help for themselves. They can help others.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

I could almost feel him near me, the way you can feel a fire's presence in a cold room.

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.