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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everything happened to find the balance of Life.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.