My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.