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

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.

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.

English is not merely a language anymore

All things are within the Circle. That is the very Center of what we believe. If all things are not enclosed, then there is no Circle.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

I can tell how lonely I am by how easily I'm fooled by a mannequin in a store.

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.