I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

There's this feeling, when you stop believing it's a show and you're there and this is happening.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.

The film is made in the editing room.

Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.

Every single house has had death visit.

And I really wanted a driver's license. I was 43, had my learner's permit and had failed the test once already - but that was in Riverhead, on Long Island.