The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal blocks or bites of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental picture and entertainment-not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer.

Albert Camus

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Elizabeth Bowen

“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.”

C.S. Lewis

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

William Blackstone

Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness.

Saul Williams

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds

Samuel Johnson

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.

Jodi Picoult

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Bill Parcells

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

George Bernard Shaw