The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

I applaud schoolteachers, librarians, and most of all, our parents, for their commitment to teaching America's children the joys of reading.

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

I had a simple dream that children and parents could check out books and enjoy the services that were offered at other libraries. I never imagined it would be as big as it is.