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

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

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

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

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

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