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

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.

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

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding

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

Hell, any game that gives its players guns is probably not the kind that'll ever really let you go free.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

The Simpsons will end as soon as Fox is able to find an 8 p.m. comedy hit to replace it - so I give us another 50 years.

I love playing in front of people. I feel powerful, 'cause I don't have to really say anything - I'm just singing.

To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.