“If abuse is to cease, and genuine love, respect, and trust are to be restored to the family picture- indeed to humanity's universal picture- then the ways that abuse is formed and perpetuated must be addressed. All that we deny of ourselves and bury beneath the surface, eventually becomes the rot which lays a brittle foundation for the next generation ”

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest”

“The idea of money is older than the idea of counterfeit money, but older, perhaps, by no more than a few minutes.”

“Shine, shine, shine tonight- It's time to let it show- Burn bright, light the fire- That leads the way to hope- The Maker of the stars lives in our soul- We have His light, what are we waiting for- Get out and glow.”

“Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.”

“As a librarian I learned one of life’s great truths: you don’t have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.”