Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

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.

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding

I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.

Understand the difference between being at work and working.

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

Love is beautiful fear

Spiritual matters are difficult to explain because you must live with them in order to fully understand them.