There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.