Do not let anyone stop you from succeding

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me. "Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type. "I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles. "I'd be scared to let go," I type. "Afraid you'd fall?" she asks. "No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.

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

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?

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

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.