Andrew Carnegie

We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.

Certainly the man who makes his own wealth eclipses those who inherit rank from others.” I

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.

Even the poorest can be made to see this, and to agree that great sums gathered by some of their fellow-citizens and spent for public purposes, from which the masses reap the principal benefit, are more valuable to them than if scattered among them through the course of many years in trifling amounts.

True it is, we only hate those whom we do not know.

Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

East or West Home is best.

No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be­hind a king when I find him.

"The result of my journey was to bring a certain mental peace. Where there had been chaos there was now order. My mind was at rest. I had a philosophy at last. The words of Christ "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," had a new meaning for me. Not in the past or in the future, but now and here is Heaven within us. All our duties lie in this world and in the present, and trying impatiently to peer into that which lies beyond is as vain as fruitless."