"Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask.""

“Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.”

Source : "Biography Today : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers". Book by Laurie Lanzen Harris. Vol. 12, Issue 2 : Laura Bush by Joanne Mattern, p.34, 2003.

“A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.”

“You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.”

“It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.”

“Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.”

“Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time - of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.”

“What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.”

“Check thyself before thy wreck thyself.”

Source : "What Tyler Oakley Taught Me About Being a ‘Man’" by Jackson Barnett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2014.