All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like in the United States of America, the most powerful of all countries of that century? What was it like to be an ordinary person?"

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.