In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.