The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

History is an accumulation of error.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?