That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

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

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.