Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.

If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.

I also have a list of favorite noises. It has one item on it: Kit's laugh.

To be successful in reaching goals, the right attitude is to never quit. Confidence is to keep the vision alive, by seeing a victory ahead that is worth fighting for.

Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.