Few men can afford to be angry.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

It is the Mass that matters.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

As a woman, you feel like you can change the person, but I don't think that's the way it works.

You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Oh I love children, but I could never eat a whole one.