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

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

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

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.

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?

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

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.