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

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.

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

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.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

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

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.