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.

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.

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.

despite knowingthey won’t be here for longthey still choose to livetheir brightest lives- sunflowers

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle-class is its future.

There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

Phil [Wood] was very passionate. Very committed. He felt very blessed that the people that cared about him and took him aside... if he was out of line or drinking too much, being too surly.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.