Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the teachers you liked best. And the teacher you liked best was the teacher who cared about the subject she taught.

I don't pick my presidents because they were great presidents. I'm not much interested in ranking presidents and who is the best and who is the worst. I am much more inclined to be interested in them if they had an interesting life and if they were a complete person - and by that I mean they also had flaws and failings.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

Home is really where education does begin.