“I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others.-Bunny”
“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
“When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?”
“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
“I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints did not exist on that sand. I think the work of the great white writers is important, but I think it's most important when it's negotiating me and my people, because I am as arrogant and selfish a reader as any other.”
“The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.”