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.

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.

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.

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.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

In a day a man needs only his daily bread.

Be firm. Be bold.

The termites have got me.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.