Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.

Teachers are about the brightest stars in our constellation.

The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.

Lord, I'll embrace whatever it is you want me to do, but please, please let me know what it is." - Father Kevin Thrall.

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

Know your strengths and take advantage of them.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out.

I carry some kind of consideration and weight and observations about what is going on in the world, but I don't go to execute it.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You'll be a better person.