How difficult it is to be simple.

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

What we know of others is our personal secret.

After all, the world is still great.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]