DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

Start by asking the question ‘Why’. This is because behind the question ‘Why’ there lies answers to your question.

The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.

It's weird because I always seem to be dead. I'm gonna have to change that because I wouldn't want to be typecast.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos)