Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

Unfortunately, I have to follow the law.

Mexico continues to make billions on not only our bad trade deals but also relies heavily on the billions of dollars in remittances sent from illegal immigrants in the United States.

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.

There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.

Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.