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.

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

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.