Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

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.

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

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

I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I’d be in great shape.

The borders of man, defined by politics, war, and faith - all three manifestations of delusion - meant even more to gods.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.

Just be yourself and one day you will find someone who loves you for everything you are, flaws or no flaws.

How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims.

I care about my quality of life and money.

Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.

We are the short of people that make health insurance popular.