You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.