True leadership means having the courage to make unpopular decisions when they're the right ones.

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.