The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

- Vartan Gregorian

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledg…

- Vartan Gregorian

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and n…

- Vartan Gregorian

It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

- Vartan Gregorian

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The …

- Vartan Gregorian

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

- Vartan Gregorian

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

- Vartan Gregorian

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

- Vartan Gregorian

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

- Vartan Gregorian