I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

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

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.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

If somebody can act out one of the books as a play, if they can see a play, film, or television show that's related, that can be so stimulating for them. Anything that makes children engage and think - and love what the story is about - can only bring the most enormous rewards.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.