Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

The great poems are the ones that survive their own occasions.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

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.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

The past is the past, and that’s where it belongs.

我爱你，不是因为你是一个怎样的人，而是因为我喜欢与你在一起时的感觉。