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

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.

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

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