Access to a school library results in more reading.

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

Children read more when they see other people reading.

The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.

You may have lost someone, but you’ve found something immeasurably more valuable: God, ’ she told me. ‘And God’s love lasts forever.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.