When I began to read, I began to exist

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

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.

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.

Echoes can’t read minds. But when you get to know someone very well, you can read their expressions. Pay attention. It will happen to you too.

No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.

We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times.

I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.

In a 100-miler, anything can happen. Speed isn't your biggest thing, you need to learn how to mentally get through it. It is very mental.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.