Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.