What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.

Readers don't grow in trees. But they are grown-in places where they are fertilized with lots of print, and above all, read to daily.

Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.

Neither books nor people have Velcro Sides -- there must be a bonding agent -- someone who attaches child to book.

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.

If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.

You and Sven and Sven. You're my family. I like you and you like me and we all helped each other back there. So isn't that family?

The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself

You must look through an opportunity and not at it

Well, reading Twitter’s a lot like staring at an ant farm, ” Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. “Except without all the productivity.

In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

I'm happily married but it's absolutely heavenly.

There is a way to bring peace and harmony to yourself even in the most difficult of times.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.