See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.