To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

You are a miracle, you are a light. You are not made of our weaknesses but of your strengths. You are a masterpiece made by The Master. Don't see yourself less!

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

I might dream, but I am no dreamer.

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.