It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

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.

But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

I can't find a person without some link to the armed forces!

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.