An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

Writers turn dreams into print.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.