If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

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

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 human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope

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

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.