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Libraries can take the place of God.

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.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

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

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

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

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and undramatic moments of existence. Even at low intensity, it is a steady source of illumination. Such religious truth is powerful even when it seems faint, even when it seems obscured by the larger events of history.