“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”

“Now look," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?”

“Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.”

“A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.”

“The world looks so beautiful! She wonders how one can not do for it anything that needs to be done, or at least all one can do.”

“The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.”