Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.

I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

Simplicity is the ultimate beauty of life.

More love, more power.Less love, less power.Great love, great power.

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

In my coming-of-age time, there was no internet, no social networking, nothing. It was just show after show, hoping one day somebody would notice you.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.