I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have.

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.