If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the information superhighways of the future.

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.

The kindest and most compassionate people I have come across are not religious.

Luke would always remember the day of his drowning

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

Divinity is the elementary personality of a human being. When he can stand before corruption and win, that is an undivided personality. It is called divinity.

So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.

... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.

Mix me with violence, blend me with peace, Combine me with hate, and I can't face defeat.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend