My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.