The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

The time was when a library was very much like a museum, and a librarian was a mouser in musty books... The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

We’ve learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.

The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring