Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

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.

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.

God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.

The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy!

Your Employees is Part of Your Company, If you want to improve your business Treat like friend not like servant.

When we wake up in the morning and we make decisions, these decisions come from the night, the night of eternity, our other side.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

Sense how Even the smooth stones ache With stories of their own In the shuddering light of day.

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.