The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.