Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Working ten hour days allows you to fall behind twice as fast as you could working five hour days.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.