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

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.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

In times of solitude, I have find rest for my soul and uphold the glory of inner peace.

Today is a great day of inspiration and gaining strength to move forward with determination and purpose.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

It's tough in the NHL you have to produce on a high level. And everybody expects you to do it because you make a lot of money. And I never minded it. I always want to be that guy.

Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main subject of our speech.

I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently.