The Need to Read"Reading books remains one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life’s questions, big and small.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

You'll never change the world if you're worried about being liked.