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.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.

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

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

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.

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.