We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

When I began to read, I began to exist

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

Reading is not optional.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

If you're born with in the wild you run with the wild

That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

I was in the game for the love of football - and I wanted to bring back happiness to the people of Liverpool.

Without an adequate answer to the question, "Why?" the price is always to high.

Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.