“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Unslumping yourself is not easily done.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, ‘Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I’m not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am – that’s a great thing to be!

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain’t no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Life is like an endless book. Each day is a new page and only death can bring the end to this little book of yours.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.