Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of the human experience reaching back infinitely far is available to you?

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.