People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. - Andrew Carnegie

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. Is is a never failing spring in the desert

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

"A forgiving God would be the noblest work of man." We accepted as proven that each stage of civilization creates its own God, and that as man ascends and becomes better his conception of the Unknown likewise improves. Thereafter we all became less theological, but I am sure more truly religious.