The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.

Nobody's seen Jesus in years.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by.