Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

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.

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

When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.

MankindMen, said the Devil, are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other's.

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.

Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don't care about others.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.