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.

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.

Reading is not optional.

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

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

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.

Think about it this way--our actions speak truth our words cannot.

The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it.

Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.

Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare themselves to be "under God" or not.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.