But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

Only sheep need a Shepard.

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

I'll refrain from making any more comments on any ongoing people involved in the judicial process.

Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art.

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.