Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser in musty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

Hatred - The anger of the weak.

I love pancakes, and I actually do love healthy stuff. Like, I love gluten-free or whole-wheat pancakes. Breakfast is my favorite meal.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

[Completely bored by a country weekend, wiring to a friend:] For heaven's sake, rush me a loaf of bread, enclosing saw and file.

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

You can't be great at everything, but you are world-class at something. Go. Figure out what that is. It's how you win.

Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade, the length of their arms, etc.