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 hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

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.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.