“Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.”

“There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.”

“Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.”

“I love libraries. I love books. There is something sacred, I think, about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, the pondering, of men and women of all the ages accumulated together under one roof to which we can have access as our needs require.”

“Knowledge was never simply born in the human mind; it was always reborn. The relaying of wisdom from one age to the next, this cycle of rebirths: this was wisdom.”

“It does not take age to be a sage, neither does it require rage to have the courage to be a sage in this day and age.”