Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.