I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.