"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"He who can take no interest in what is small, will take false interest in what is great…; he who cannot make a bank sublime, will make a mountain ridiculous."

"The true measure of a man is the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

"Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose."

"I did come from a pretty independent-minded family."

"I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility."

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."