I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

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.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.