The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

From 9-5 you put food on your table. Before 9 and after 5 you make your fortune!!!

Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.

Aren't we lucky to be us?

I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who's in my mind in reality.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.

Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually Roosevelt wanted to keep the banks together and regulate them.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.