He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

He is the true enchanter whose spell operates not upon the senses but upon the imagination and the heart.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Imagine for yourself a character a model personality whose example you determine to follow in private as well as in public.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope to love - and to put its trust in life.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.