If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.