Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.

Blessed with the love of a good man, I felt equal to anything

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.