But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

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

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.

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.

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

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