Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

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

If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working

FRIENDSHIP - A Journey of different souls through the path of LOVE

Saddam Hussein is about to face trial and George Bush wants to execute him. Not because of the war crimes, but because Saddam is beating him in the polls.

What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.

I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

I liked quantum mechanics very much. The subject was hard to understand but easy to apply to a large number of interesting problems.