"When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money."

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

"You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you."

"If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way."

"It is a radiant truth that a dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope."

"Vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos."

"To dream is to realize that the beauty of life is found in its imperfections."

"When desire dies, fear is born."