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

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

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.