When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.
Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
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