[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.