Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can't be done. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to really look fear in the face... Do the thing you think you cannot do.

I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democrac.