Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

Children read more when they see other people reading.

Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures

Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.

In the middle of a grocery store, two children were horsing around (one holding the other in a headlock) when the mother turned abruptly to give them a stern repr

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.