The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.