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One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Your library is your paradise.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.