All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

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

Laughter is inner jogging.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.