Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.

Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.

When in doubt, stand still.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.