Can you become The hope I need? Can you help me be More than it is written in my future Or past? Is there another me to find?

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

I existed in a world that never is, a prison of the mind.

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind with a faint heart and with a lame endeavor.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

The blind eate many a flie. [The blind eat many a fly.]

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can!

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.