Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

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.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

When you got no future, Billy, you got no past - no dreaming to guide you into the future. Gotta have your dreaming of you get lost...

The beginning of a life of greatness starts from you becoming the biggest fan of your positive self.

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

...our family became a place where you screamed for help but no one heard, not ever.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

He felt the hot impact of bullets. He heard the sound of chopping meat. He thought 'is that me?' . . . and then he opened his eyes.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

True strength is not always shown through victory. Stand up, try again and display strength of heart.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.