In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

The most beautiful people are all in the library.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.