"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"History is a vast early warning system."

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."

"Wisdom principle 92 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 95."

"It is a radiant truth that every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice — an essential principle for the reflective life."