生命的最高体现在于：一个生命能够自主引导自己的行动。总是受他人指导的事物有些像是一种死物。

The most ordinary materials can become extraordinary through attention.

文学是那些没有声音的人的声音。

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of man change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

The health of our oceans reflects the health of our planet. We must act now to protect both.