Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

It's the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, my son.

Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?

If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

If you see a candidate that Washington embraces, run and hide.

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.