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.

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

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.

Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each year?

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

Stories are medicine.

Pity swells the tide of love.

It was better that a little blood should be shed that much blood should be saved. The blood that was shed was bad blood; the blood that was saved was good blood.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.