I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

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

The ego destroys the world as well it is the ego which grows the world.

Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.

Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.

Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

Haters can't see me, but them b-tches still looking for me.

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.

In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.