Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

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

You will always find someone ahead of you even if you overtake someone on the highway called ‘LIFE

Hope is a joy of heart.

If you are brave, you will open the book and read it.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. -Clary, pg.243-

Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

Do you remember when we played in Spain in the Anglo-Italian Cup?