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

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

History is a vast early warning system.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

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.