Reading is not optional.

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.

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

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.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Opinions are a useless currency

Find children in your neighborhood, Teach them to read and writeTake them out of the darkness, Into the light

The most successful men work smart, not hard

You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

Dancing is another way to communicate. That's what separates The Pussycat Dolls from other groups.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.