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

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.

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.

Success is the progressive discovery of your assignment

The time is always right for the right thing.

You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path.

Without stories, we are incomplete.

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

You know, its really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.

Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo.