I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Paul Curtis, Richard Peck and Kate DiCamillo, who I love.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.