It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

History is a vast early warning system.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.