A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
We’ve got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You’ve got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.
If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
You’ve always got to remember, rock and roll’s never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never – never – a bout surrender.
Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don’t know where it’s flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.
Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by ‘reality’ or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!
A person’s a person, no matter how small.