Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.

To be in the history books of anything is fantastic,

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.