“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”

“Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.”

“Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.”

“I own and operate a ferocious ego.”

“When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.”

“The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.”

“As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.”

“War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.”

“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”

“In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness”

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”