A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

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.

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

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