It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

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.

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

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

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