“A perfectionist's greatest fault resides in her inability to achieve the impossible.”

“The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.”

“But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.”

“Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.”

“Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.”

“Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.”

“Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.”