We humans have had from time unknown the compulsion to name things and thus to be able to deal with them. The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it. And in ancient thought the name itself has power, so that to know someone's name is to have a certain power over him. And in some societies, as you know, there was a public name and a real or secret name, which would not be revealed to others.

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.