If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.