I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.

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.

SALLY: Grab what you want and hope for the best.

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

Today is filled with solutions, be positive and enthusiastic at ALL times. Why worry or live in fear, it will probably never happen!

The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed.

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president.

Many a necklace becomes a noose.

My investments have been hurt.

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.