Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

When I began to read, I began to exist

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Reading is not optional.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

Life, ” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

Labor is no disgrace.

First, learn how to report traffic jams, then you can talk about football. (on Bulgarian journalists)

That was a real fireball.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.