Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

More depended on the student than on the school.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.

من لا يريد القراءة ليس بأفضل ممن لا يستطيع القراءة

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.