A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now

Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.

When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.

You were not born to just go to school and work, Discover the world and enjoy your life while you're still young

You can’t be living always in the promise of the clouds

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate, ..

Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.

Entrepreneurship is the way we take control of our lives in a tough economy.

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

Cinema has reached a dead end.

It's the economy, stupid.