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

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

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

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

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.