You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.