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To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
What we really yearn for as human beings is to be visible.
If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.
Things are always harder than you think they're going to be.
Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?
It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.
All people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
After all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.
Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.
What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?
Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.
I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me.
The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.