A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

I've learned that next to the atomic bomb, the greatest danger is defeatism, despair, and inadequate awareness of what human beings possess. I feel that any problem that can be defined is capable of being resolved. Out of this has come my conviction that no person knows enough to be a pessimist.

All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.