Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. 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 more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.