To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

...killing rats wasn’t in my job description.

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Any child that wants special attention is arrogant”.

Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that nature abhors a quitter.

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

The things we do today - sowing seeds, or sharing simple truths of Christ - people will someday refer to as the first things that prompted them to think of Him.