We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.
The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.
It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.
It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.
To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.
A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.
Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about democracy in Iraq, not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.