Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire.

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.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

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

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now. That's what most writers really care about.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

Men's language is as their lives.

Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.