When we meet and I discover that we have read and loved the same books, we are instant friends.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Students need to make their own choices about reading material and writing topics.

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now

Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

If we value all readers, we must value all reading.

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is thelarge scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts

Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

The concept is to weave in some emotion.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much worse than in the UK.

Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.