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

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

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

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.

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.

The universe is math on fire.

Persistence and determination are always rewarded.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I put my money on Brexit. The EU Financial Stability Commissioner, Jonathan Hill from Britain, still owes me a pound.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday!

We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

The word is a label and I don't like it at all.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.