"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." -- Henry Ward Beecher
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones that need the advice." -- Bill Cosby
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." -- Bruce Feirstein
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- Abba Eban
"History, with all her volumes vast, has but one page." -- Lord Byron
"The fatal flaw in the concept of trivia is that it mistakes information for knowledge." -- Roger Ebert
Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est. ("Knowledge Itself Is Power.")