I'll never forget the first time I saw her. Her eyes were wide open, listening to her high school coach and taking in everything she possibly could. She turned our program around.

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

It's important when you come into a new school district that you spend time listening and learning.

He was listening. I could see in his eyes he was recording everything. Mentally, he was so far ahead of the other guys his age. He's smart and calculated and mistakes are heavily punished here. Even the way he handles disappointment is right. He reminds me of Jay.

If there's anyone listening to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if you are

I'll never forget visiting the local school for the first time with 50 kids surrounding us. It was a moment when time stopped. The children wrote short stores about our time together. I was amazed at the different ways I had touches their lives.