Brandon Porter

“If there is one lesson form the centuries-long story of the library, it is that libraries only last as long as people find them useful. In other words libraries need to adapt to survive as they have always adapted to survive.”
― ― Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History

“A thousand days of training to develop, ten thousand days of training to polish. You must examine all this well.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Complete Book of Five Rings

“You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.”
― Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

“When things are easy a person doesn’t really learn about himself. It’s what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment. The U-Who is my moment. What I do now is what I am.”
― Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II