“History is a vast early warning system.”

“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”

“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.— Cited in ALA Bulletin, Oct. 1954, p.475”

“The control center of your life is your attitude.”

“Laughter is inner jogging.”

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”