Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

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

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.